Mark A. Smylie & Joseph F. Murphy 
Caring in Crisis [EPUB ebook] 
Stories to Inspire and Guide School Leaders

Learn, reflect, and grow from 40 true stories of caring school leadership during times of crisis


Each crisis brings its own issues and unique traumas, and when they happen, most leaders handle the moment by leaning into triage and logistics. This book suggests focusing on more—specifically, on the people they serve. Are you up to the task? 

These 40 real stories, from a wide range of schools and settings during many types of crises, show how caring school leadership adopted caring people-first strategies. This book will help you and your teams be inspired to prepare for, perhaps prevent, respond to, and recover from your own school crises. Within these pages, you will find:

• An introduction to what crisis and caring school leadership means


•  Helpful lists to guide caring leadership practices


• A review of current crisis management literature


• Questions, reflection, and prompts to engage with story learnings

Prepare now to be the concerned, caring, and constant leader your school will need when crises come as well as making your leadership and school more caring when those same crises subside. 

Daftar Isi

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction: Crises and Caring School Leadership

Crisis Comes

The Meaning of Crisis

Crisis Leadership and the Through Line of Caring

Caring School Leadership in Times of Crisis

Guide for Engaging the Stories

Overview of Practices

Questions That Promote Understanding

Questions That Prompt Application

The Stories

1. Through the Eyes of Children

2. Speak Life

3. Giving Ourselves Permission to Be Human

4. Building a Family

5. Reflections on Healing Staff With Compassion

6. Caring for Kids by Taking Care of Teachers

7. Laura

8. Guarding Against Sexual Misconduct

9. One Sows, Another Reaps

10. A Million Times More

11. Commitment to Community Health

12. Da Bears!

13. My Zoom Isn’t Working!

14. Imagine the Possibilities

15. On Day 2, 9/11

16. Responding to the Crises

17. A Deadly Threat

18. Start Simple

19. Keeping Connected With the Kids

20. Prioritizing Our Students

21. A District Office Caring for Teachers

22. We Need to Talk About Sarah

23. Coping With Loss

24. Bring Your Dog to Work Days

25. “With Every Difficulty, There Is Relief”

26. Tone Deafness

27. Centering on Community

28. Biting

29. The Magnolia

30. No One Saw It Coming

31. No Hugs, No Bugs

32. Two Storms in One Week

33. And Then There Was Mold

34. I Am Here for You

35. Winning and Losing

36. Summer Meals

37. Sharing the Peace

38. The Tsunami

39. Leading Through the Storm

40. The Work of My Life

Coda

A Culture of Caring

Who Cares for the Caring School Leader?

Bibliography

Tentang Penulis

Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, Pre K-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.